Friendly reminder that the Ducks are like, really strong. Alvin may not weigh much but still Dive tosses him like it's nothing. Phil is a hefty fella and Duke yanks him clear off his feet. And then there's the last one, Tanya holding the 185-pound Duke clear off the ground. And all three do this with one hand.
I should write a fic where the basement of the Pond floods, so the Ducks end up staying the night at Phil's house. His living room has a conversation pit and they turn it into a fort/nest.
I did do some writing on random fics during NaNoWriMo. Because I’m loving seeing more Ducks stuff pop up, I’ll share this one scene! We’ll see if I ever finish the “short” and get it published.
I swear, I can’t write any full story under 5K words...
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Nosedive finally got his hands on a new copy of Slug Soldiers and was counting on having the rec room TV to play it on since Tanya forbade him from using Drake One for his games anymore. Stupid rule. Name a computer after him, it should be his to use whenever he wanted. Not that any of them knew his ‘real’ name…
Mallory, as usual, got in the way of his plans.
She had beat him to the TV and had sprawled across the middle couch with a comfortable cushion, blanket, two liter of Sprite and a cup, and a bag of chips. One leg was propped up on another cushion with a pillow under her right knee and an ice pack on it. She looked up at him when he stood behind her and then went back to the show.
“You can watch the movie with me or you can find somewhere else to hang out.” She grabbed the remote and tucked it under the cushion she was leaning back on before he had a chance to steal it.
“Oooorrrr…” Nosedive held up the video game, “We could do two player mode of Slug Soldier.”
“Hm.” She looked like she was considering it, then shrugged. “Why not? After my movie.”
At least it wasn’t a sappy chick flick. He could get behind an action film, even if he’d missed the first half. And was that the funny kung fu guy? What was his name? Jenny? Jackie! Yeah, Jackie Chan. He made good stuff and Nosedive liked his movies.
“Coolella! Catch me up?” He jumped over the couch and landed next to her.
“Get your own snacks.” She pulled the bag of chips out of his reach when he tried to steal some. “It’s Who Am I? Dude fell out of a plane and has amnesia, now everyone wants to kill him.”
“Come on! I’m already here. Share.”
“Nope.” She smiled and happily munched a chip, making sure to crunch it loudly. “But I will pause the movie while you get something.” She pulled the remote out and hit the pause button, making sure to keep it out of his reach when he tried to snag it from her anyway.
“You suck.”
“You stink.”
Frowning, he lifted his left arm and sniffed to check. He’d showered after practice this morning!
“Get your nose checked, girly,” he mocked as he stood. “And don’t start that again without me!” He turned to run to the galley when she called him back from the door.
“Hey!” She threw the ice pack at him before he had a chance to answer. “Get me another one?” He caught it easily and raised it, nodding as he jogged to the siren call of junk food.
Nosedive danced around, singing to himself while he tossed two bags of cheddar popcorn into the microwave and pulled a tray and two large bowls out of the cabinets. He switched out the warm ice pack for a still frozen one and grabbed the chocolate syrup and another two liter of Sprite out of the fridge while he was there. He added those to the tray, dumped the now ready popcorn in the bowls and returned to the rec room.
“Wait a minute…” he stared at the screen, which was now paused on the Columbia TriStar logo. “Did you rewind it?” He set the tray on the table and handed her the ice pack.
“You saved me a trip to get another ice pack.” She gladly accepted the popcorn too, but made a face when he started covering the popcorn in his bowl with the chocolate syrup. “Your brother’s going to kill you if you get that on the furniture.”
“Nah. I’ll tell him you did it.”
“Ass.” She pushed play and then fast forward.
“Hey! Come on! I promise, I won’t.”
She rolled her eyes and hit play, but refused to rewind the opening sequence he’d missed.
They laughed at the movie and were at the exact part Nosedive had walked in on when Phil entered the room, calling their names with too much enthusiasm.
“Nosedive! Mallory!” Phil held both arms out wide as he walked towards them.
Mallory groaned and paused the movie yet again.
“What?” Nosedive asked, keeping his voice flat in an imitation of his brother.
“No.” Mallory said.
“Wildwing already said yes,” Phil said.
“I don’t believe you.” Mallory took the ice pack off her knee and swung her leg around to sit up straight and face Phil head on.
“Yeah, me either. You’re too cheery,” Nosedive agreed.
Phil held up the white cookbook with a roller blade and sushi roll wheels on the cover with both hands and drummed his fingers on the cover.
“Huuuh!” He tried to drum up some excitement. “How’d you like your own cookbook?”
“Uhhhh…” Nosedive and Mallory exchanged confused looks before Nosedive spoke up first. “I don’t think that skate is actually going to work.”
“No!” Phil held the book out to him. “The author wants to do a cookbook and workout plan based on the team. I promise, no recipes for duck. In fact, she wants recipes from your planet!”
“What kind of workout plan?” Mallory asked. “Most humans on this planet don’t play hockey. Or do any sort of martial art. I doubt they’d want to follow my routines.”
“Nobody wants to follow your routines,” Nosedive laughed. “Not even you!”
The door opened and Tanya entered. She began going through the shelves by the TV, muttering quietly to herself.
“Jan would just hang out with you guys for a couple days, talk about what you eat, watch what you do, and that’s it. I swear.”
“Wildwing seriously said yes?” Nosedive didn’t think his brother would have agreed to being shadowed. He tried not to be distracted by Tanya, but he really had no idea what she was looking for so earnestly.
“Pretty much.”
“Pretty much isn’t a solid yes,” Mallory reminded him. “And if he didn’t say yes, then I’m not going along it.”
“He said if all of you said yes, then it’s a yes.”
“And does anybody else…” Mallory trailed off when Tanya moved from the shelves by the TV and started going through the couch cushions. “What are you looking for?”
Tanya didn’t answer and kept her digging.
“Earth to Tanya!” Nosedive broke in.
Again, no reaction or indication that she had even heard him.
“I don’t know what’s up with her,” Phil said. “I tried talking to her for half an hour and she just kept taking things apart and sorting the pieces into piles!”
“Ah, crud,” Nosedive said. “Crazy time! I’ll take the first shift after our movie’s over. You going to be good for one, Mal or do we need to count you out?”
“Let me know when she’s getting ready to blow something up and I’ll be there. As long as I can sit, I should be fine.”
“Guys!” Phil half shouted. “Cookbook?”
“Sure,” Nosedive smiled. “We can give them any recipe we want. Right?”
“Noooo.” Mallory could see exactly where his thoughts were going.
“Rommig,” Nosedive grinned. “They’ll love it.”
Rommig was a fermented fish, traditionally salted just enough to keep it from rotting and thrown into barrels for three months and then moved into a brine for another three months. It was important the fish be kept within a specific temperature range to control the fermentation bacteria from overgrowing or dying. It smelled absolutely awful and even ducks who grew up with it as a regular part of their diet didn’t care for it much.
“First, they don’t have nerrig. Second, they really won’t let that take as long to ferment as it needs. And third, that stuff is disgusting.” She’d eaten more than she cared to as a survival food.
“I dunno… Herring might be close enough. I’m going to try making it.”
“You know what?” Mallory looked from Nosedive to Phil. “I’m in. But, you have to eat a whole rommig when he’s done with it.”
“Sure!” He readily agreed. After all, how bad could it be?
“Hah!” Tanya cheered in triumph as she found the remote and began hurrying out of the room with it.
“Hey! Give that back!” Mallory shouted, standing to give chase and stopping the moment she tried to put weight on her right leg.
Nosedive jumped up and immediately began chasing.
“That’s half!” Phil grinned and followed Nosedive and Tanya out to look for Duke.
Mallory sat back down on the couch and glared at the distance between the couch and VCR. She’d just have to wait for Nosedive to come back with the remote.
There is Bleu that is made by @fluxchix that I added things to when we were building characters together in high school and beyond. LAWD.
Bleu is from a team that came from the planet Cheribu and not Puckworld (no hockey but MAGIC.) See after what Drake Ducaine had to do in the past to stop the bad Saurians, caused the planet to go into pretty much a nuclear winter. Headcanon was that Drake Ducaine’s time didn’t have massive space travel yet. It was a combo of victorian/some modern tech/steampunk. Maybe they could send a man to the moon like us currently but they weren’t a space travel society. There were good Saurians that helped them in the war and hmm, they felt like Puckworld may not stay survivable for long. So, they took some ducks to another planet in case Puckworld didn’t pan out. OOPS. The ducks on Cheribu over the centuries have been very interbred with the Saurians that originally took them there. There aren't any Saurians left now today but there are many brightly colored ducks, with strange colored hair, feathers, and bills. It's not unheard of some of these ducks being born with scales on their bills as well, or taloned fingers.
With Bleu she’s scandalous because she was an evil witch for a while on her home planet before changing her ways long before she was on Cheribu team. She is a strong magic user, and pretty much fills the ‘Wraith’ position on the resistance side when they get to Earth and California.
She’s also very… I guess neutral in her alignment. I mean she’s FIGHTING baddies but sometimes she does BAD things to fight baddies. From the vain of, “I used to be a baddie I know how they think, and I have to do the same extreme to help/protect the innocent” type. How they originally meet the main Mighty Duck team (And a secondary OC team) is she uses a spell to bring them to Cheribu and alters their memories to fit archetypes of what they would be like if they were born on Cheribu. They have no memories of their real life- and were made to fight some baddie on Cheribu that they needed help fighting. (Hint: If they had just asked they would probably do it.) After all, their people are distant cousins of Puckworldians. Ha.
ANYWAYS - other Scandalous thing, she is very old- and it turns out- Wraith is her father. DUN DUN DUN. I headcanon Wraith kinda grey area too. Wraith and Bleu often talk behind both their factions' backs. Not sharing info like double agents, nah, just bitching because they’re both old and understand how sometimes this is all bullshit. Alright.
Third scandalous thing she did - she may have hooked up with Phil for a while.
So like, oh god. How do I explain myself. I hook up my more serious main OC Duluna with Nosedive but she has more patience for idiots and Nosedive in the long run isn’t that dumb. Bleu is also serious with past angst. But no patience for idiots. But then again, is Phil not completely dumb? I mean, he’s technically a good manager, right? He made the team enough money to build a supercomputer and base under the rink. The show mentions having to do stupid commerical ad stuff that they begrugingly do probably cuz MORE MONEY FOR TECH. And Phil does find them extra stuff to do that pays soooo???
Also, alien duck team is just widely accepted by Earthlings because they play hockey?? Like there are so many other cartoons with heroes that are ‘others’ with a human friend and they’re not accepted by society. Phil used sports mentality and capitalism to just like - have humans just accept alien ducks. I don’t see Elisa Maza, April O’Neal, lawd Charley from Biker Mice, and what not doing that for their hero buddies. Mutants would be accepted if Phil was doing PR for the X-Men like damn. So yeah, Phil being the best human friend he gets a little duck dating from Bleu, as a treat.
Also main reason I decided to ship Bleu and him a bit is because of those Malfinia and Connecticut Clark comics. That's pretty much their vibe. Ha.
Man here is an old pic I did of Bleu. If I ever redesign her we’re gonna do sensible armor like first Wonder Woman movie Amazons not like Justice League Amazons ughhhhh. Ignore the one eye color being smaller than the other I used to have her have one eye do that when she was casting magic but its probably dumb now OH THE THINGS I THOUGHT COOL WHEN I WAS A KID.
